Ruth Hanna McCormick

Ruth Hanna McCormick (27 March 1880-31 December 1944) was a member of the US House of Representatives from Illinois' at-large congressional district (R) from 4 March 1929 to 4 March 1931, succeeding Henry Riggs Rathbone and preceding William H. Dietrich.

Biography
Ruth Hanna McCormick was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1880, the daughter of US Senator Mark Hanna; she was also the wife of Senator Joseph M. McCormick and later of Congressman Albert Gallatin Simms. An active worker for the suffrage movement during the 1910s, she served as chairman of the first women's executive committee of the Republican National Committee, and as an associate member of the national committee from 1919 to 1924. From 1929 to 1931, she served in the US House of Representatives as a member of the Republican Party, representing the state of Illinois' at-large district. After losing the primary election in 1930, she returned to her publishing business, and she died in 1944.